Originally published on the Jive Software website on June 22, 2015. PDF version of the infographic is attached to this blog.

If you’re still using email to stay in touch with your team, chances are your engagement strategy is on a one-way road to nowhere.

With email traffic at an all-time high, the sad truth is that most internal communications go straight from the inbox to the trash. With no way to respond except a “reply all,” how do you even know if people are reading your important internal communications? Numbers show that productivity increases 15% across the enterprise when employees can talk back.

Below you’ll find some suggestions to raise employee engagement. What are you doing to make sure employee engagement is a two-way street instead of a dead end? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.